The Cycling Dude

Do You Bicycle? Dedicated to the proposition that bike riding is good for you & fun. Commentary, links, news, opinion, reviews, stories, travelogue, & occasional heads up about events. Kiril Kundurazieff spreads the word & the word is BICYCLE!

Dear friends, and fans, of this blog, and anyone who stumbles upon it via Google, other Search Engines, or some website that still links to me.... It has been almost 3 months since I retired this blog to little notice,...

JANUARY 5, 2003 TO AUGUST 15, 2010 THANK YOU HAPPY CYCLING !! ****UPDATE - 10/22/10**** The adventures of The Cycling Dude continue on my personal blog with an archive of posts that follows my cycling life into the future. ****END...

Hello, everyone! Not sure how many folks know I'm still hanging in there, but I wanted to tell you that despite the best effort of a local street in Long Beach, Ca....I ain't dead yet, and neither is my Trusty...

Anyone miss The Cycling Dude? Notice I was gone? Hee, hee! When last I checked in I was in the midst of a Medical Testapalooza, and about to go on vacation. ;-D Nikita, on his blog, was handling all the...

Since I last reported in an MRI was on the agenda, and later so was a Treadmill, and a Holter Monitor. This post on my other blog, last week, tells the details of taking those tests: The Poking, and Prodding,...

I don't blog about bicycle racing much at all but, as regular readers know, I love history! ;-D This morning a very cool story has come out of London. President Jacques Rogge has presented an Olympic gold medal to a...

In case you didn't notice...blogging has been light around here, this year. ;-D Besides not doing much in the way of cycling, aside from 6 mile daily commutes to, and from, work, I found myself spending the first 4 months...

Over at About Bicycling, David has discovered the latest effort by the Lovable Sheriff Joe Arpaio to ingratiate himself with the inmates of his jail, and Civil Liberties activists across the nation. ;-D To paraphrase a misquoted Marie Antoinette...Make them...

In 2007 one of the most popular voices in Bike Blogging first took to the internet. Yesterday, with the help of a willing, and eager, snitch, a tower of the Mainstream Media revealed to all the world the identity of...

Stephen Dolle is an interesting man, with a fascinating past, and career. Surviving a car accident, and 7 Brain Surgeries since 1992, barely covers it. ;-D Don't worry having brain surgery doesn't automatically lead you to take up playing with...

If you are arriving late I invite you to read part one, where I meet Randy Eady, and Stephen Dolle, in San Clemente, Ca., then come back as we head to the beach for an afternoon stroll. ;-D While the...

Well, OK, we didn't have the drum, but we DID meet with a drummer! ;-D Let me begin at the beginning... It's 530am on a cool Saturday morning, March 20, 2010, and I found myself sitting at the Transit Terminal...

Last Saturday was a great day for me, full of interesting conversation, some walking along the beach, photography, pizza, and whiskey dolloped coffee. ;-D I had the great pleasure to finally meet Randy Eady, of Glider Rider, Seat and Feet,...

My first vacation of the year is fast approaching! It begins on Friday, and last thru the 29th. I plan on getting out, and about, with hikes, bike rides, and other things, including blogging. The last few weeks have been...

Early in the morning of March 5, 1960, my Mother postponed breakfast...at my insistence...and she, and my Father, went to the Hospital where I made my Grand Entrance into the world at exactly 8:33am. My Mug Shot was taken 30...

David Fiedler writes a popular column that is quite informative. Recently he reached out to readers: A bike is a simple machine, but it almost seems to have magical powers . . . an amazing ability to literally change people's...

In March 2007 I did a story on one of the oldest Bike Shops in the world. Detto Pietro, of Milan Italy, opened for business in 1895. I added a link to their website in my Elder Statesmen, and Women,...

I had a few a few hundred followers of my couple of hundred Tweets, over the past year, and I regularly checked out a couple hundred of my fellow Bike Twits, but nothing really came of it all. Every post...

As part of the blogging my Cat does, at Meowsings of an Opinionated Pussycat, he posts photos of Cats that I encounter on the street while riding my bike. ;-D So far all the Cats I've encountered have been in...

I just came across an interesting essay, by Damien Newton, of Streetsblog LA, that rips a a CHP Officer who writes a column for a Whittier Newspaper, a new one for his ignorance, not just in the writing of his...

Bike Portland addresses this issue in an interesting blog post in which he talks to the State Network Director of the Safe Routes National Partnership, Robert Ping. Ping works out of an office in North Portland and is the former...

Effective New Years Day my 12 year old Cat, Nikita, began to run his own blog, Meowsings of an Opinionated Pussycat, after over 7 years as a co-blogger on my blogs. ;-D One ongoing series of posts is a collaborative...

Happy New Year!! Party, Party, Par..., um, hey, where did everyone go? Yet, again, the success of the new blog for my Cat, Nikita, pre-occupied our time the last 2 weeks. 7 posts since the start of December is way...

I got an e-mail recently from a man looking for information. Hank needs help identifyng a bike: I recently acquired an old 10 speed with no identifying marks. It has a 23" lugged frame, 27' chrome steel wheels made in...

This is an interesting Bicycle, seen at the Palm Beach Art Fair, and the humor comes from what my friend Randy Eady, of Glider Rider, says in his description of it: "Talk about seeing a bike transformed: this one is...

Or get lost while Bike Commuting, either! The last 2 weeks saw my Cat take over the computer... Honest! ;-D As this year comes to a close I've been thinking about where I want to take my blogging in 2010....

Funny, fun, cool, and interesting are words I'd use to describe this bike. ;-D Not sure I'd want to try to ride it in SoCal traffic during rush hour, or any other time for that matter, though. ;-D Santa is...